The Weather

dbukauskas on Nov 10th 2009

This weather is ridiculous. Americans are intrinsically skeptical of flip-floppers. There is no reason that this preposterous weather should be subject to any different, easier standard just because it’s a “force of nature.” I mean, come on. Two weeks ago, I was wrapped up tighter than a medieval Japanese ninja to defend against the biting riverside October cold. Now, I’m walking around outside with a t-shirt, wondering to myself what kind of a world we live in where the weather is allowed to pull hijinks like this. I yearn for the days when cold meant cold. Today, cold means that it’s time to pull out your heavy-duty winter wear and wear it for two days so that you survive till the weekend, when it will be a bajillion degrees Fahrenheit outside. In the good old days, cold weather meant snow up past your face and hypothermic temperatures. I remember skiing out my door with my parents on cross-country skies. I certainly don’t remember the atmospheric monkey-business we call weather nowadays. How about, instead of spending money on war and a failing economic system, we develop a dependable weather machine. It’s about time the American people got some reasonable, dependable weather. It’s the least we deserve.

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3 Responses to “The Weather”

  1. # dbermanon 17 Nov 2009 at 4:11 pm

    I elect that we fire whoever is in charge of the weather and replace said official with someone more reliable. I’d even settle for Schwarzenegger’s villain in Batman Forever. Sure, it’s a horrible movie, and Arnie wants to make New York a giant ice sculpture, but at least it would be something consistent.

  2. # marcusmartinezon 17 Nov 2009 at 4:15 pm

    “Two weeks ago, I was wrapped up tighter than a medieval Japanese ninja to defend against the biting riverside October cold.”
    That was HILARIOUS!
    And you’re right, this weather is pretty insane. It drives me crazy!

  3. # CHallowellon 17 Nov 2009 at 4:16 pm

    Sudden weather changes have always been out there. But now, we are so tuned to the specter of global warming that any temperature flip-flop gets us all nervous. Rather than succumbing to that, it’s probably more worthwhile to consider the affect of carbon release (which causes global warming) from factories, cars, forest fires, etc. on the air we breathe and the water we drink. Most inland waterways are more highly contaminated with mercury from smoke stacks than the oceans are. We eventually drink that water. So climate change–the affects of which we see in increments–is only part of the story of what we are doing to ourselves.